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User3
User3

Reputation: 2535

Action Bar menu - Submenu showing wrong items.

My main file: 

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >

    <item
        android:id="@+id/action_settings"
        android:orderInCategory="100"
        android:showAsAction="never"
        android:title="@string/action_settings">
        <menu>
            <item
                android:id="@+id/menu_adhoc1"
                android:icon="@drawable/icon_custom"
                android:title="@string/menuitem2_3"/>
            <item
                android:id="@+id/cPanel1"
                android:icon="@drawable/icon_cpanel"
                android:title="@string/menuitem2_5"/>
            <item
                android:id="@+id/tutorial1"
                android:icon="@drawable/icon_tutorial"
                android:title="@string/menuitem2_4"/>
        </menu>
    </item>
  </menu>

What I am trying to achieve is that place three more options under the menu, however I get only one option under menu labelled as "Settings", clicking on this leads to the desired result of getting three options under the menu. Where am I going wrong, any hints?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 272

Answers (1)

Bryan Herbst
Bryan Herbst

Reputation: 67189

The problem is that you nested a <menu> containing <item>s inside another <item>.

As per the Menu documentation, this adds your second menu as a submenu of the parent item.

What it sounds like you are looking for is all the items being withing the same menu, like so:

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >

    <item
        android:id="@+id/action_settings"
        android:orderInCategory="100"
        android:showAsAction="never"
        android:title="@string/action_settings" />

    <item
        android:id="@+id/menu_adhoc1"
        android:icon="@drawable/icon_custom"
        android:title="@string/menuitem2_3"/>

    <item
        android:id="@+id/cPanel1"
        android:icon="@drawable/icon_cpanel"
        android:title="@string/menuitem2_5"/>

    <item
        android:id="@+id/tutorial1"
        android:icon="@drawable/icon_tutorial"
        android:title="@string/menuitem2_4"/>

</menu>

Upvotes: 1

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